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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must ...

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All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles o...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagi...

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These earthenware bowls are fragile and easily broken, they are only made of a little clay on which ...

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However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because h...

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José SaramagoDeath with Interruptions

Creation is much in need of ordering.

He has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of...

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heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simp...

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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...

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An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescui...

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It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the bes...

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If you destroy the foundations of anything, the structure will collapse. If you want to destroy any ...

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The evolution theory is one of the dumbest and most dangerous religion in history of humanity.

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Kent HovindThe Dangers Of Evolution [Dvd 2005]

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.I Name you Calvin.I Name you Mr. Jenkins.I Name you Proginoskes....

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For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...

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In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things w...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

... even in his most artificial creations, nature is the material upon which man has to work; certai...

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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...

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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together ...

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Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.

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Mark TwainThe Diaries of Adam and Eve and Other Stories

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King

I stood like Adam in his lonely gardenOn that first morning, shaken out of sleep,Rubbing his eyes, l...

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We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our c...

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We, the atom and I, have been on friendly terms, until recently. I saw in it the key to the deepest ...

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Max BornMy Life and My Views

In a time of destruction, create something.

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can com...

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I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevi...

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Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, f...

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Michael ChabonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. ...

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The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sent...

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I can't tell you why God made you the way you are any more than I can tell you why he's planted a ca...

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By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own ...

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The debate that has been conducted in terms of "creation versus evolution" has gotten caught up with...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other t...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

On the seventh day God rested in the darkness of the tomb;Having finished on the sixth day all his w...

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N.T. WrightThe Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're ...

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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

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It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war ag...

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A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being...

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When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to u...

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It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being bey...

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Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and ...

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We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.

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Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.

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Philip K. DickRadio Free Albemuth

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?""Only to monsters," Dr. Stone...

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I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his crea...

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One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of ...

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Phillip E. JohnsonAn Easy-to-Understand Guide for Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic w...

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Phillip E. JohnsonAn Easy-to-Understand Guide for Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

Only if the being of creation is good, only if trust in being is fundamentally justified, are humans...

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Pope Benedict XVI'In the Beginning...' A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall

God makes Himself felt in the heart of each person. He also respects the culture of all people...God...

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Pope FrancisOn Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith

O dieses ist das Tier, das es nicht giebt.Sie wußtens nicht und habens jeden Falls– sein Wandeln, se...

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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without t...

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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet ...

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being ...

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It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive t...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about bo...

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Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a pai...

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You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...

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The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...

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For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound...

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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the s...

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Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering o...

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The germ of creation lies in violence.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but n...

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Salman RushdieHaroun and the Sea of Stories

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.And the greatest praise to India is...

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Coyote, who is the creator of all of us, was sitting on his cloud the day after he created Indians. ...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that ...

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What are you?''I'm the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a b...

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The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

Musical comedies aren't written they are re-written.

Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you tha...

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I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

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Sydney SmithThe Sayings of Sydney Smith

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

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Sydney SmithThe Sayings of Sydney Smith

There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;There will b...

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But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a rea...

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But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a rea...

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Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't ju...

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It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the univ...

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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial inte...

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His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluo...

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Thomas MertonThe Seven Storey Mountain